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Find all the links to our source articles and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/this-month-in-german-startups-january-2020/ This Month in German Startups - January 2020 - by Startuprad.ioIf you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.   Find the hosts here: Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018) Chris Fahrenbach chris@startuprad.io / Twitter / Homepage / Video Interview (2018)     Affiliated LinksThe hard thing about hard things https://amzn.to/2S62X30   Ben Horowitz tells his story from an employee, afraid to loose his job to CEO of a company caught in the dotcom bubble to VC investorZero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future https://amzn.to/37H2MSpPeter Thiels, the famous investor tells you his mental framework to think about innovationBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies https://amzn.to/2Ob0xySReid Hoffmans, the founder of LinkedIn, advice on scale fast   You can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription – you get the first month for free https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21   EnablerThis recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/   Together with our enabler we are running a podcast called “Tech Startups Germany”, which will focus on startups at a Serie A stage or even more mature. You will also find all the videos we produce for this podcast on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio. This podcast is available directly on our device as audio and video podcast, yes, Startuprad.io makes the first downloadable video podcast. Find all options to subscribe here: 

The EnablerThis is a video interview from our podcast Tech Startups Germany. All the recordings on this channel are made possible by Invest in Hessen (learn more here https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/home). The digitalization game is never ever a game won by a single company Marc Gille, Founder and CEO THING TECHNOLOGIES during his Startuprad.io interview The FounderIn this interview, we talk to the serial entrepreneur Marc Gille (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-gille-2165946/), Founder and CEO of THING TECHNOLOGIES. Marc founded his first startup, a business process management platform, in Frankfurt in 2000. He sold this startup in 2006 to SunGard, now part of FIS (https://www.fisglobal.com/about-us). Marc went on to work for FIS in New York as Senior Vice President for more a decade, before founding his current startup THING TECHNOLOGIES (https://www.thing-it.com/) in Brooklyn. He later moved with his startup’s headquarter from Brooklyn to Frankfurt, leaving some operations in New York. If you want something more hip, certain places in Offenbach will do Marc Gille, Founder and CEO THING TECHNOLOGIES during his Startuprad.io interview The StartupTHING TECHNOLOGIES is a proptech startup, owner of the Thing-it platform. The Thing-it Platform allows configuring digitalization solutions for all participants (real estate developers, tenants, co-workers, residents, guests, properties managers, facilities managers, service providers) using and operating a building. Venture CapitalTHING TECHNOLOGIES already raised a Series A venture capital round with coparion and PropTech 1 Ventures (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/thing-technologies-llc#section-lists-featuring-this-company). They are still looking to raise more money, in a second closing of their Series A round. They are also looking for international investors for a Series B Round since THING has a good footprint in the US (founded in New York, still has a team in Birmingham Alabama). If you want to get in, feel free to reach out, we get you connected. The VideoFind the video interview here: https://youtu.be/DZ8oFEx91tU Building Technology 1988As recommended by Marc, here is the trailer of Die Hard 1 (Stirb Langsam 1) from 1988 to familiarize yourself with the capabilities of large buildings already in the 1980s. Please note the buildings explosion resistance in the movie may be exaggerated

Interview PartnerIn this interview, Joe is talking to Alexander Lange –  Co-Founder and Head of Software Engineering (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-lange-527522119/) at Darmstadt based deep tech startup Xelera Technologies  (https://xelera.io/). He has been with the German Aerospace Center and the European Space Agency.   The StartupXelera Technologies offers specialized software for FPGA processing, which accelerates cloud computing considerably for certain tasks. Xelera already won two awards from the German federal ministry of economics and energy (including digital startup of the year 2019) https://www.de.digital/DIGITAL/Redaktion/DE/Gruenderwettbewerb/Artikel/preistreager-Digitales-Start-up-des-Jahres-2019.html. The startup has also been named a “Top 50 Startup” by German Blog Für-Gründer (https://www.fuer-gruender.de/beratung/gruenderwettbewerb/studie-2019/top-50/)   Recommended Readings (Affiliated Links)The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPortehttps://amzn.to/38Ug3rUThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/2sGDy78   The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/34DYbOCThe $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeauhttps://amzn.to/2PEoFetOutliers by Malcolm Gladwellhttps://amzn.to/36U41g6Grit – The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworthhttps://amzn.to/2SbuEcj       Deep Tech PodcastIf you are interested in German deeptech startups, you can find our audio-only podcast "Deeptech Germany by Startuprad.io" here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2oWO3Sl Spotify https://spoti.fi/2qucve8   Venture Capital RoundXelera is currently raising its seed round in Q2 2020. If you are interested in investing, reach out to us, we will get you connected.   Further ReadingFormerly with DLR (German Aerospace Center) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Aerospace_Center ESA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft) ESOC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Operations_Centre FPGA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array GPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit FPGA coding https://www.fpga4student.com/2017/08/what-is-fpga-programming.html Find the video here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/xelera-technologies-helps-with-their-software-to-accelerate-machine-learning/ Folge direkt herunterladen

This Month in German Startups - Review 2019 and 2020 OutlookIf you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.   Find the hosts here: Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018) Chris Fahrenbach chris@startuprad.io / Twitter / Homepage / Video Interview (2018)   Publication ScheduleThis episode will … substitute the June News. This year startuprad.io’s news wrap-ups will have a summer break from the May News until the end of September. We are sorry, but there is no other way to fit the podcast around Chris and Joe's busy lives.    About this OutlookNonetheless, we are now giving you the review of a decade and the preview of a decade! We mostly stick to top-level stuff, especially since the deeper you dig, the more material we would have to cover.    Recommended Readings (Affiliated Links)The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPortehttps://amzn.to/38Ug3rUThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/2sGDy78   The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/34DYbOCThe $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeauhttps://amzn.to/2PEoFetOutliers by Malcolm Gladwellhttps://amzn.to/36U41g6Grit – The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworthhttps://amzn.to/2SbuEcj     EnablerThis recording was made possible by Hessen Trade and Invest. Learn more about our enabler here: https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/   Together with our enabler, we are running a podcast called “Tech Startups Germany”, which will focus on startups at a Serie A stage or even more mature. You will also find all the videos we produce for this podcast on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio. This podcast is available directly on our device as audio and video podcast, yes, Startuprad.io makes the first downloadable video podcast. Find all options to subscribe here: 

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio GoContract is like Google Docs for Contracts by Startuprad.ioThis is a special publication on January 6th 2020, a public holiday in some states of Germany, to commemorate the Three Kings. Learn more about the day below. (at the bottom you will find the Link to the video interview) The InterviewIn this interview we are talking to Lucas Weiper (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-weiper-0828a6167/), CEO and Co-Founder of the “almost legaltech” GoContract (https://go-contract.com/). GoContract is headquartered in the beautiful city of Koblenz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koblenz), which is located between Frankfurt and Cologne. They offer end to end contract management. “Lower Salary for startups is not an issue, if you can work with vision” Lucas Weiper, CEO and Co-Founder GoContract A very brief startup historyIn the past, Lucas worked for a digital agency and the (also) Koblenz-based startup Sdui (https://www.sdui.de/). He learned a lot about startups, digital marketing and even recruiting there. Actually, he even encountered the problem, GoContract is now trying to solve. The startup helps startups and corporates with the tracking and management of their contracts. They offer end to end contract management. “I can not advise to outsource software development. You will need the IP in later VC funding rounds” Lucas Weiper, CEO and Co-Founder GoContract Recommended Holiday Readings (Affiliated Links)The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPortehttps://amzn.to/38Ug3rUThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/2sGDy78   The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/34DYbOCThe $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeauhttps://amzn.to/2PEoFetOutliers by Malcolm Gladwellhttps://amzn.to/36U41g6Grit – The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworthhttps://amzn.to/2SbuEcj   Learn more about our Affiliated Marketing here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/affiliate-marketing-at-startuprad-io/ Note on German customs: Normally Christmas is considered over after January 6th, which is a public holiday in Bayern, Baden-Württemberg, and Sachsen-Anhalt, where the Three Kings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi) are commemorated.   Startup weekendThey started their company at Startup Weekend Koblenz (http://communities.techstars.com/germany/koblenz/startup-weekend) and found there their remaining co-founders. They set up the company with 6 people, where only three founders actually hold equity. The other three hold sub-shares. Venture Capital RoundGoContract is currently raising its seed round in Q2 2020. If you are interested in investing, reach out to us, we will get you connected. Further Readings:Vocational training in Germany: https://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/study-training/training/vocational/system/ Techboost Telekom: https://telekomhilft.telekom.de/t5/TechBoost-EN/ct-p/TechBoost_en Mittelstand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand Netflix Series Skyline, to which Lucas referred (taking place and recorded in Frankfurt) Official Trailer in German with English subtitles:https://youtu.be/e5bE-8n0_5Q One of the songs (in German) Skylines Kalifa - Rose im Beton ( Official Full Music)https://youtu.be/8xLCUg6pvPM Agile Method (Blog): https://www.wrike.com/project-management-guide/faq/what-is-agile-methodology-in-project-management/ Agile Method (affiliated links): Agile Methodology: A Beginner’s Guide to Agile Method and Principles https://amzn.to/36olKwIKanban: The Ultimate Guide to Kanban Methodology for Agile Software Development https://amzn.to/35jvfLYKeep up to date with GoContractAs Lucas said in the last minutes of our interview, you can follow them here: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Cnh5wXg7zb56w0u6Z5YCA LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/gocontract     https://youtu.be/u4...

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio A personal note from Joe: Every time you see Johannes smile, I was telling stupid stuff / laughing in his earbuds. Sorry about that, but I had a lot of fun recording the interview. Interview PartnerIn this interview, we are talking to Johnnes Mattmann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-mattmann/,https://www.crunchbase.com/person/johannes-mattmann), founder of flyingshapes (https://www.flyingshapes.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flyingshapes) a VR startup, which offers a software for industrial design (think automobiles, machines, planes, …). Johannes studied particle physics and even had a research stay for his Ph.D. at CERN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN). Known to many people from Big Bang Theory (as large hadron collider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL9XeopaOTY) but should actually be known as the birthplace of the world wide web.   The StartupDuring his studies, he had to make abstract data visual and process lots of abstract data, which he can now apply at flyingshapes. flyingshapes helps companies to do more of their product development process in their software and therefore enable them to accelerate their process. They also enable virtual design teams from across the world. Venture FundingFlying shapes raised investments in fall 2019 from ISB (https://isb.rlp.de/home.html) and Bito Campus (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bito-campus), but they are looking for more investors in 2020. If you are interested, reach out and we connect you.   Affiliated Links Looking for VR headsets? We talked about some of them in our interview. Oculus Go VR Gaming Headset - 32GBhttps://amzn.to/37q8BmBOculus Quest All-in-one VR Gaming Headset – 128GB + Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Serieshttps://amzn.to/37nvZkEHTC Pro Eye Virtual Reality Kit Blackhttps://amzn.to/39xmWjeHTC VIVE - VR Brillehttps://amzn.to/2ZEPTVVSamsung Gear Virtual Realityhttps://amzn.to/2SKSEDMSamsung Gear Virtual Reality (glasses only)https://amzn.to/2ZGjwWR  During the interview we are talking about:CAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design Computational Geometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_geometry Polygon https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/polygon.html Parametric curves: http://mathonline.wikidot.com/parametric-curves     Find all the links and videos (interview, as well as mentioned videos) here:  https://www.startuprad.io/blog/mainz-based-flyingshapes-accelerates-product-development-with-their-vr-software-video/ Folge direkt herunterladen

If you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German. Talk to the hosts: Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io Chris Fahrenbach chris@startuprad.io Find all the links here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/this-month-in-german-startups-december-2019-by-startuprad-io/ Recommended Holiday Readings (Affiliated Links) The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte https://amzn.to/38Ug3rU The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/2sGDy78   The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/34DYbOC The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau https://amzn.to/2PEoFet Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell https://amzn.to/36U41g6 Grit – The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth https://amzn.to/2SbuEcj   Folge direkt herunterladen

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio The InterviewIn this interview, we talk to an international entrepreneur, of which we try to bring you approx. 30% of our content. This time we have the pleasure to interview a member of “Forbes Asia 30 Under 30” Lucy Yueting Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/awxlucy/), co-founder of Hongkong-based fintech unicorn Airwallex (https://www.airwallex.com/). Airwallex is simplifying international payments for companies.   “Valuation is the result of what you did well. It is not really a milestone itself. Valuation means nothing if there is no growth” Lucy Liu, Co-Founder fintech unicorn Airwallex  ContextDuring the interview, Joe and Lucy talk about her past as an investment consultant and intern at banks. She jumped pretty young into the startup world. The idea of Airwallex is to offer a cheaper better and more convenient alternative to SWIFT, which was invented in the 70s (see details below). “The average time a CEO of a startup stays as CEO is 3 years.  Many people cannot grow in a way that helps their business” Lucy Liu, Co-Founder fintech unicorn Airwallex   Affiliated LinksBretton Woods, Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order (The World of the Roosevelts) https://amzn.to/2WSalRCThe Bretton Woods Agreements: Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents (Basic Documents in World Politics) https://amzn.to/2Nrj8agMore books here: https://amzn.to/2JZO7YEFX Trading BooksThe Art of Currency Trading: A Professional's Guide to the Foreign Exchange Market https://amzn.to/2PVAAoRA Foreign Exchange Primer https://amzn.to/2WTEq3lAudibleOr listen to interesting audio books on Audible. You get the first month free https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21  Further LinksDuring the interview, Lucy and Joe touch on different topics. Learn more here: Link Video all New Zealand Rugby team “All Blacks” and their Māori war dance Hakka https://youtu.be/I3gbneDt-S4 FX or forex spreads https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/090914/understanding-spread-retail-currency-exchange-rates.asp A short explanation video what SWIFT is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaa9GDIOE4 or here on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interbank_Financial_Telecommunication Single euro payments area (SEPA): https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/banking-and-finance/consumer-finance-and-payments/payment-services/single-euro-payments-area-sepa_en Non-convertible currencies: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nonconvertiblecurrency.asp The Intern https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106015/ trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU3Xban0Y6A   https://www.startuprad.io/blog/interview-with-lucy-liu-co-founder-of-hongkong-based-fintech-unicorn-airwallex/ Folge direkt herunterladen

Find the video and more content here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/2019-fintech-review-germany-talkshow-by-startuprad-io-video/   The traditionThis is a Startuprad.io tradition. Every year close to Christmas Joe gets together with smart people from the German fintech scene and talks about what was going on. Usually, the discussion drifts fast in a talk show and does not stick to the usual news format. None the less it is very informative and there are great ideas for fintech entrepreneurs and investors here. Trust is repeated positive experience – Frank Schwab during Startuprad.io’s 2019 Fintech Review  This episode was made possible by Hessen Trade and Invest, learn more at www.invest-in-hessen.de Find the video and more content here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/2019-fintech-review-germany-talkshow-by-startuprad-io-video/  The traditionThis is a Startuprad.io tradition. Every year close to Christmas Joe gets together with smart people from the German fintech scene and talks about what was going on. Usually, the discussion drifts fast in a talk show and does not stick to the usual news format. None the less it is very informative and there are great ideas for fintech entrepreneurs and investors here. Trust is repeated positive experience – Frank Schwab during Startuprad.io’s 2019 Fintech Review  This episode was made possible by Hessen Trade and Invest, learn more at www.invest-in-hessen.de To digitize the relationship with clients in banking, that will be the unicorn – Paolo Sironi during Startuprad.io’s 2019 Fintech Review Our Guests(in alphabetic order) Mario Hachemer, CTO Fastbill (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahachemer/) Luka Ivicevic, Co-Founder / Chief of Staff at Penta (https://www.linkedin.com/in/luka-ivicevic/) Frank Schwab, Co-Founder Fintech Forum (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankschwab/) Paolo Sironi , Author and Thought Leader IBM (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepsironi/) Host: Jörn “Joe” Menninger, Founder and Host Startuprad.io joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018) To succeed in Fintech you need to digitize the client relationship – Paolo Sironi during Startuprad.io’s 2019 Fintech Review Further ReadingDuring the discussion we are touching: Challenger Bank / Neo Bank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_bank Share of Wallet https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/share-of-wallet.asp Tiktok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQEGJMmqBTw Mortgage: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mortgage.asp related: Mortgage market shares in Germany. Statista has only numbers for 2015, but online banks had a 40% market share: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/661264/umfrage/entwicklung-der-marktanteile-der-vertriebskanaele-in-der-deutschen-baufinanzierung/ Goldman Sachs’ Marcus: https://www.marcus.com/us/en Related: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/12/09/why-is-goldman-sachs-investing-in-marcus.aspx Having a good user experience is ok, but it will not lead to a transformation people will do banking – Paolo Sironi during Startuprad.io’s 2019 Fintech Review   https://youtu.be/fFxCiGsnD48    Fintechs succeed because they are not overvaluing the trust – Mario Hachemer during Startuprad.io’s 2019 Fintech Review   I think in 2020 we will see fintechs and neobanks opening up branches – Luka Ivicevic during Startuprad.io’s 2019 Fintech Review   Recommended Holiday Readings (Affiliated Links)The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPortehttps://amzn.to/38Ug3rUThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/2sGDy78   The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey https://amzn.to/34DYbOCThe $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeauhttps://amzn.to/2PEoFetOutliers by Malcolm Gladwellhttps://amzn.to/36U41g6Grit – The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth...

BackgroundPublic blockchains, like Ethereum and Bitcoin, can only perform ten transactions per second. If you only want to put one percent of global financial markets on the blockchain, you would have to do hundreds of thousands more. That is where Perun comes in. They are a B2B startup and work with other companies who are interested in blockchain or already working with it. Perun generates an additional layer on the original blockchain, their protocol (2nd layer off-blockchain) is more secure and much faster by enabling transactions to be sent peer to peer in separate channels without confirmation of thousands of blockchain miners. In each channel, thousands of transactions per second are possible with current technology. Perun’s channel technology could also be used by centralized financial networks like credit card companies or other payment providers (think PayPal). Their channel technology also allows machine-to-machine-payments on blockchains. During the interview, we also talk about their technology’s theoretical limit. They will soon release their protocol as an open-source developer kit. Find more information on that on their website. Interview PartnerIn this interview, Joe is talking to Sebastian Stammler – Implementation Lead (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebstar/) and Hendrik Amler Scrum Master (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hendrik-amler-932506191/) at Darmstadt based Blockchain startup PERUN (https://perun.network/). At the time of the interview (October 2019), the company was not yet incorporated. Perun is part of a research group jointly of TU Darmstadt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Darmstadt) and University of Warsaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Warsaw). TU Darmstadt is one of the great starting points for many deep-tech startups (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_tech) here in Germany. You might also want to pay a visit to HIGHEST, the startup and innovation center of the university: https://www.highest.tu-darmstadt.de/highest/index.en.jsp. Tune in to learn more. Blockchain Germany by Startuprad.ioIf you are interested in German Blockchain startups, you can find our audio-only podcast "Blockchain Germany by Startuprad.io" here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2O2jwLx Spotify https://spoti.fi/2qucve8 DISCLAIMER:As opposed to the usual Youtuber or Podcaster in the Blockchain space my guests don’t pay thousands of Euros to be here. AND neither am I invested in you guys. I am also getting NO kickback. For everyone who is surprised about that, many channels work like this. Just pay attention to the people in Telegram Chats who ask for admin emails and “business proposals” they usually sent an offer with a price tag of several thousands of Euros, sometimes upwards of 50.000 Euros, just to be on their channel. Oh, and before I forget: They usually only want cash, they don’t take crypto. Make sure you vet your main blockchain information source before you fall into those traps. Further reading:We are talking during the interview: Vobis was a – now-defunct – computer hardware retailer in Germany, in the late 1990s. Some years they were showing the largest revenue for computer hardware in Germany. Learn more here in Wikipedia (article only in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vobis Diploma degree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma#Germany_and_the_German_academic_education_system_in_Europe Prof. Dr. Sebastian Faust of TU Darmstadt: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/cac/start_cac/mitarbeiter_cac/personendetails/index.en.jsp Prof. Stefan Dziembowski, PhD of University of Warsaw https://www.crypto.edu.pl/Members/Dziembowski Technical Papers for further reading:- General State Channel Networks https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/320 - Virtual Payment Channel Hubs http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/635 - Multi-Party Virtual State Channels https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/571   Recommended Holiday...

Interview PartnerIn this interview, Joe is talking to Friedrich "Freddy" Zwanzger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zwanzger/), Chief Data Officer of Mainz-based blockchain startup Anyblock Analytics (https://www.anyblockanalytics.com/ ,https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anyblock-analytics) During this interview, we learn how Freddy discovered Blockchain back in 2015. We also talk about how Anyblock works. They are indexing blockchains and once the blockchain is on their index, one can analyze it and track activities. Tune in to learn more. Blockchain Germany by Startuprad.ioIf you are interested in German Blockchain startups, you can find our audio-only podcast "Blockchain Germany by Startuprad.io" here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2O2jwLx Spotify https://spoti.fi/2qucve8 DISCLAIMER:As opposed to the usual Youtuber or Podcaster in the Blockchain space you don’t pay thousands of Euros to be here. AND neither am I invested in you guys. I am also getting NO kickback. For everyone who is surprised about that, many channels work like this. Just pay attention to the people in Telegram Chats who ask for admin emails and “business proposals” they usually sent an offer with a price tag of several thousands of Euros, sometimes upwards of 50.000 Euros, just to be on their channel. Oh, and before I forget: They usually only want cash, they don’t take crypto. Make sure you vet your main blockchain information source before you fall into those traps.   Affiliated Links Our Affiliate PartnerCo-WorkingWeWorkMarketing / SEO / Graphics / Sounds and moreFiverrEmail service?G-SuiteLooking for a bank account for your startup? Have a look at our partner PentaPenta Bank AccountAudible subscription: You can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscriptionhttps://amzn.to/2pGzsehLearn more about our Affiliated Marketing here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/affiliate-marketing-at-startuprad-io/ Further ReadingDuring the interview Freddy and Joe are talking about: The city of Mainz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz Smart contracts: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smart-contracts.asp ISB Mainz (German only) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investitions-_und_Strukturbank_Rheinland-Pfalz   Find the video interview here (scroll down to the bottom of the Blogpost): https://www.startuprad.io/blog/anyblock-is-like-google-analytics-for-blockchain/   Folge direkt herunterladen

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio Sorry to everyone who expected a publication yesterday. We are still experimenting with the publication times and weekdays. InterviewIn this interview, Joe talks to Jacob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-wedderburn-day-499258111/, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jacob-wedderburn-day), the CEO, and co-founder of the London-based startup stasher (https://stasher.com/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/citystasher). Stasher is similar to an Airbnb for luggage, where you can store your luggage on the day of departure at certain tourist hotspots and still do some sightseeing.   Affiliated Links   Our Affiliate Partner Co-Working WeWork Marketing / SEO / Graphics / Sounds and more Fiverr Email service? G-Suite Looking for a bank account for your startup? Have a look at our partner Penta Penta Bank Account Audible subscription: You can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription https://amzn.to/2pGzseh Learn more about our Affiliated Marketing here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/affiliate-marketing-at-startuprad-io/ JacobDuring the interview, Jacob tells the story, how he came from studying economics to “real” business and how Airbnb paved part of the way for their startup idea. As usual for Joe, the interview goes sometimes off on some tangents. You will find the links below and if you watch the video interview, you also get to see the strange phone booth in all its abstract glory … Tune in to learn more Alternatively, we wanted to call the Interview: “Stasher your reason to visit a dog café in Canada“ Further ReadingDuring the interview both are talking about: Economic downturn 1907 https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/panic_of_1907Economic downturn 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308“Flying Saucers from Men in Black I” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_PavilionEuston Station London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_railway_stationKings Cross Station London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_King%27s_Cross_railway_stationStasher at Time Square in New York City https://stasher.com/luggage-storage/new-york/times-square  Folge direkt herunterladen

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio Find all the links we are talking about, as well as the show notes on our website https://www.startuprad.io/blog/this-month-in-german-startups-november-2019/ If you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German. EnablerThis recording was made possible by Invest in Hessen. Learn more about our enabler here: https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/home  Affiliated Links  Our Affiliate PartnerCo-WorkingWeWorkMarketing / SEO / Graphics / Sounds and moreFiverrEmail service?G-SuiteLooking for a bank account for your startup? Have a look at our partner PentaPenta Bank AccountAudible subscription: You can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscriptionhttps://amzn.to/2pGzsehLearn more about our Affiliated Marketing here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/affiliate-marketing-at-startuprad-io/ Housekeeping - Time to brag We set up sub-podcast for special interest and our Fintech Germany made it up to No 72 in the iTunes Business Charts of Qatar. Thank you! Now there is

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at www.youtube.com/startupradio Find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/qualifiction-helps-more-authors-to-get-published/ In this interview, Joe talks to Gesa of this year’s winner of the CONTENTshift (https://www.contentshift.de/en/) accelerator QualiFiction. Learn more here: https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-qualifiction/. Publishers receive more than 4 million book proposals for SciFi novels each year, in the German-speaking area alone. Now QualiFiction wants to help here so more texts can be evaluated by the publishers. The startup has an AI, which can – within 60 seconds – evaluate a SciFi text. So, they avoid publishers sending back unread proposals to the aspiring authors, due to a lack of readers for evaluation. They also generate the metadata (e.g. genre) for the text. QualiFiction is also looking for publishers who give them masses of texts in different languages so they can extend their offering to other languages, besides German. _ Scifi Books Joe likes (AL) Peter F Hamilton: The Armageddon Series https://amzn.to/2rolpu9 Craig Alanson: Expeditionary Force Series: https://amzn.to/2QTNm7H Arthur C. Clarke – Collected Stories: https://amzn.to/2Oo5HrT _ This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/en/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. We will bring you this year’s winner of CONTENTshift at Thanksgiving (Nov 28th). History Every year the Frankfurt book fair is also the place where Startuprad.io interviews the finalists and eventual winners of the program. We did this already in the past. Have a look at our interviews from 2018 on our playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUbiCAQc22WsdxEzE7iASbXD4_rAAVQbx _ Affiliate Links Want to get better? Try our recommendations Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions (Wiley Finance Editions) https://amzn.to/2WwKy1g Venture Capital For Dummies (For Dummies Series) - Nicole Gravagna, Peter K. Adams https://amzn.to/2oxRDC4 Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist https://amzn.to/2WtuQ72 You can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription (first month for free – AL) https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21 _ Folge direkt herunterladen

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio Tech Startups Germany - By Startuprad.ioThis is the first video of our new podcast Tech Startups Germany. All the recordings on this channel are made possible by Invest in Hessen (learn more here https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/home). You can find this specific channel here as audio and video stand-alone podcast or via all channels of Startuprad.io. Frankfurt as a location is good from an international recruiting standpoint, since Frankfurt has a really really great reputation. VC FundingIn this interview, Joe from Startuprad.io is talking to Florian Brokamp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-brokamp-5a329876/), CEO of Thinksurance (https://thinksurance.de/en/start/), a Frankfurt-based insurtech startup. The fintech just raised 13 mn venture capital (https://www.policendirekt.com/en/thinksurance-raises-e13m-in-series-b-funding/) so Startuprad.io took the opportunity and stop by on short notice to ask one of the founders what they will do with all the money. Startup is not about the events, it is not about “raising big”… its more important to believe in yourself, be happy and create your vision. ThinksuranceFirst some information on the startup: Thinksurance is the leading commercial insurance distribution platform in Germany. Its technology connects insurers, distributors from all sales channels and business customers on its intelligent analytics and distribution platform. The company was founded in Frankfurt, Germany, first entered the market in 2016 under the brand “Gewerbeversicherung24” and was rebranded in 2019. By now, the insurtech has almost 50 employees and is led by its two founders Florian Brokamp and Christopher Leifeld as well as Vasil Vasilev and Timm Weitzel. The insurtech is looking to increase headcount considerably and expand to other countries like France, Belgium and the Netherlands. As second priority they are looking to the USA and Asia. Tune in the interview to learn more. We would hope that in Germany in general and Frankfurt in specific there would be more support from the Government … Learn more here:  https://www.startuprad.io/blog/thinksurance-connects-brokers-and-insurance-companies-on-their-platform/ Folge direkt herunterladen